Entries Categorized as 'Fun'

How to solve a Rubik’s Cube

Date January 27, 2009

Fun with the Yoshimoto cube

Date January 19, 2009

Video demonstration of a variation of the Yoshimoto cube, invented in 1971. Link includes a video on how to make one yourself out of paper, as well as an introduction to the Banach-Tarski paradox (“a pea can be chopped up and reassembled into the Sun”). Made up of eight interconnected cubes, it’s capable of unfolding [...]

Axess: Time for the skateboard evolution

Date September 30, 2008

Insight Gone are the days of the conventional skateboards that made you skate through the length and breadth of your vicinity without much on offer. The Axess, makes you access the same area with a lot of modulations that make it better than anything currently on offer. Design Status Longboard manufacturers around the globe would [...]

Giant Ring

Date July 20, 2008

http://view.break.com/533617 – Watch more free videos Man, this looks like fun! Wonder where I can get a giant ring?

Jump Rope Masters

Date May 19, 2008

Solar Airship

Date May 9, 2008

The solar airship is a cross between a Hot Air Ballon and a Kite – the hot air inside causes the airship to rise (like a hot air balloon), and you hold onto the 50m tether line to stop it flying away (like a kite). The airship’s black film outer layer absorbs the heat from [...]

University Of California, Berkeley Marching Band Does Nintendo Themed Halftime Show

Date May 7, 2008

This is a video from November of UC Berkeley’s marching band doing a Nintendo inspired half time show. I would have posted it early, but honestly, UC Berkeley didn’t accept me and I hold grudges. And for the record — filling out a college application in crayon shows creativity, damnit. And the coloring book page [...]

How To Hack Fast Food Drive-Thru Windows

Date May 7, 2008

How To Hack Fast Food Drive-Thru Windows. A very simple description on how to bust the frequencies of your local fast food restaurant and mess with the employees and customers.

First Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Teaser Poster

Date April 29, 2008

We now have the official teaser poster for the upcoming The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Finally every major summer movie has a poster; for the longest time this movie sat scheduled without a poster, or a trailer, or hardly any imagery – but now that’s changed. Although this isn’t much of an introduction, [...]

Awareness Test

Date April 18, 2008

Go ahead and take the Awareness Test. Trust me – it’s worth it. Trust me that it’s not of the genre to calm you down and then terrify you with a screaming monster head or something. Scouts honor. I promise. Nope.